GTA IV help

[DeEmanon]

First thing is; will GTA run on my spec... ? (spec is in the spec tab) and two, how do i play online?

 

[FredeGail]

Hello there.

Not sure about the online part but run this tool.

Can You RUN It | Can I run that game | Game system requirements

Fred.

 

[sinbin]

that should run it,i not sure about ur cpu as i have no clue on amd !you need fast internet to go online on any game really!
give it a try do you have the game to hand!

 

[Wishmaster]

how do i play online?

I believe you need to register your game, and be log into the Rockstar Social Club when you launch the game.


Then use your cellphone to access Multi-Player.
Your in-game cellphone, that is.

 

[Francis93]

First thing is; will GTA run on my spec... ? (spec is in the spec tab) and two, how do i play online?

Your setup made me drool.
You should be able to play it in maximum settings.

 

[DeEmanon]

First thing is; will GTA run on my spec... ? (spec is in the spec tab) and two, how do i play online?

Your setup made me drool.
You should be able to play it in maximum settings.

Cheers, hehe... makes me proud, and yeah the game does run on full settings, mind you it only uses 960mb of 2000 odd mb, of my card, but i wonder why it has an odd lag

 

[MrNeeds]

First thing is; will GTA run on my spec... ? (spec is in the spec tab) and two, how do i play online?

Your setup made me drool.
You should be able to play it in maximum settings.

Cheers, hehe... makes me proud, and yeah the game does run on full settings, mind you it only uses 960mb of 2000 odd mb, of my card, but i wonder why it has an odd lag

it's a port of a console game, it will lag because it's not created specifically for your hardware

 

[Wishmaster]

Your setup made me drool.
You should be able to play it in maximum settings.

Cheers, hehe... makes me proud, and yeah the game does run on full settings, mind you it only uses 960mb of 2000 odd mb, of my card, but i wonder why it has an odd lag

it's a port of a console game, it will lag because it's not created specifically for your hardware

This.
GTA IV doesn't run perfectly smooth even on the best even on the highest end PCs.
If you got it running fairly smooth overall & stable, your good to go. I wouldnt worry to much about it.

However, I would suggest a good defrag of the HD. The occasional lag you descibe "may" be a bit of harddrive hitching when the game is calling for more data to load.
A defrag could potentially help a bit in this regard.

 

[Richardc269]

Cheers, hehe... makes me proud, and yeah the game does run on full settings, mind you it only uses 960mb of 2000 odd mb, of my card, but i wonder why it has an odd lag

it's a port of a console game, it will lag because it's not created specifically for your hardware

This.
GTA IV doesn't run perfectly smooth even on the best even on the highest end PCs.
If you got it running fairly smooth overall & stable, your good to go. I wouldnt worry to much about it.

However, I would suggest a good defrag of the HD. The occasional lag you descibe "may" be a bit of harddrive hitching when the game is calling for more data to load.
A defrag could potentially help a bit in this regard.

This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is.

 

[DeEmanon]

it's a port of a console game, it will lag because it's not created specifically for your hardware

This.
GTA IV doesn't run perfectly smooth even on the best even on the highest end PCs.
If you got it running fairly smooth overall & stable, your good to go. I wouldnt worry to much about it.

However, I would suggest a good defrag of the HD. The occasional lag you descibe "may" be a bit of harddrive hitching when the game is calling for more data to load.
A defrag could potentially help a bit in this regard.

This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is.

thing is, i read an article a while back about how defragmenting your win 7 is a bad idea, and how it only really makes the difference in XP

 

[MrNeeds]

This.
GTA IV doesn't run perfectly smooth even on the best even on the highest end PCs.
If you got it running fairly smooth overall & stable, your good to go. I wouldnt worry to much about it.

However, I would suggest a good defrag of the HD. The occasional lag you descibe "may" be a bit of harddrive hitching when the game is calling for more data to load.
A defrag could potentially help a bit in this regard.

This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is.

thing is, i read an article a while back about how defragmenting your win 7 is a bad idea, and how it only really makes the difference in XP

nahh, it helps, i've had very quick loading times on my system after a defrag and a week earlier it was super slow, it just depends on what you use to defrag, it's really down to the graphics card, the more onboard memory your GPU has, the better the game will run, but considering i'm on an older card, the game runs like a tied down tortoise

 

[mrwearysinner]

dude i didnot even know that GTA IV doesnt support SLI!! i mailed the bloody support team cause like i cudn max up the DRAW DISTANCE and they told me it does not support sli and it pissed me off!!
well if youre using a single graphics card..it shud run fine!! i finised GTAV with the draw distance to around 35 i guess bad LUCK!

 

[DeEmanon]

This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is.

thing is, i read an article a while back about how defragmenting your win 7 is a bad idea, and how it only really makes the difference in XP

nahh, it helps, i've had very quick loading times on my system after a defrag and a week earlier it was super slow, it just depends on what you use to defrag, it's really down to the graphics card, the more onboard memory your GPU has, the better the game will run, but considering i'm on an older card, the game runs like a tied down tortoise

What tool do you suggest?

 

[Wishmaster]

Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.

As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.



In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.

Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app.

 

[DeEmanon]

Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.

As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.



In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.

Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app.

so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''?

 

[Wishmaster]

Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.

As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.



In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.

Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app.

so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''?

If you do not know much about fragmentation, and defragmenting, please have a look here:
File system fragmentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It should help answer all questions.


Fragmentation is actually quite normal. You can see how much there is, by typing "defrag" in you start menu search box, than open the Disk Defragmenter.
Just press the analyse button, and it will give you an idea in a percentage.

Less than 10% is generally regarded as being OK, and should not cause much of a performance issue.
More than 10% typically means a defrag pass is needed.

Heavily fragmented would be something like 20% or more fragementation.


Please bear in mind, all of this applies to mechanical Hard Drives. Solid State (SSD) suffer no ill effects from it as they work entirely different than a mechanical, platter type hard drive.

It is also worth mentioning, that by default, Windows 7 defrag passes should occur automatically any time the level get close to or exceeds 10%.
Unless you intentionally disbaled it.

 

[DeEmanon]

Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.

As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.



In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.

Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app.

so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''?

If you do not know much about fragmentation, and defragmenting, please have a look here:
File system fragmentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It should help answer all questions.


Fragmentation is actually quite normal. You can see how much there is, by typing "defrag" in you start menu search box, than open the Disk Defragmenter.
Just press the analyse button, and it will give you an idea in a percentage.

Less than 10% is generally regarded as being OK, and should not cause much of a performance issue.
More than 10% typically means a defrag pass is needed.

Heavily fragmented would be something like 20% or more fragementation.


Please bear in mind, all of this applies to mechanical Hard Drives. Solid State (SSD) suffer no ill effects from it as they work entirely different than a mechanical, platter type hard drive.

It is also worth mentioning, that by default, Windows 7 defrag passes should occur automatically any time the level get close to or exceeds 10%.
Unless you intentionally disbaled it.

There is the result

 

[Wishmaster]

Yea, I would go ahead and let it defrag

 

[MrNeeds]

wow, that is fragged! mines barely on 1%, i use auslogics disk defragmenter as it's very quick and reliable, and free!